vocation

Examples of vocation in the following topics:

• Career Development: Vocation and Identity

  • A vocation is an occupation to which an individual is particularly drawn.
  • Any profession, such as a doctor, lawyer, or social worker, is an example of a vocation.
  • Since the origination of Vocational Guidance in 1908, by the engineer Frank Parsons, the use of the term "vocation" has evolved to include the notion of using our talents and capabilities to good effect in choosing and enjoying a career.
  • In common parlance, a vocation refers to one's professional line of work or career, such as being a doctor.
  • Define the meaning of the word "vocation" and how it impacts the choices people make as far as occupations are concerned

• Vocational Training

  • A rise in formalized vocational training followed the Panic of 1893, with vocational high schools and normal schools preceding.
  • The industrial education system evolved, after large-scale growth following World War I, into modern vocational education.
  • There were also non-cooperative high schools; two examples were the Girl's Vocational High School in Kansas City, Missouri and the Delgado Trade School in New Orleans.
  • This national vocational movement was seen to give junior colleges a target population, but numerous students wanted more than a semiprofessional education; many maintained a desire to transfer.
  • Discuss the political and economic circumstances that gave rise to institutionalized vocational training in the early twentieth-century

• Boundless for the Workplace

  • The Boundless platform can be used for vocational training for employees, in addition to its more traditional educational uses.
  • However, we also work with companies who want to provide vocational training for their employees.

• Tracking Systems

  • Thus, traditionally, students were tracked into academic, general, and vocational tracks.
  • Academic tracks prepare students for advanced study and professions such as medicine or law, whereas general and vocational tracks were meant to prepare students for middle or working class life.
  • Students in less academic tracks acquire vocational skills such as welding or cosmetology, or business skills, such as typing or bookkeeping.
  • Parents and peers may influence academic choices even more than guidance counselors by encouraging students with similar backgrounds (academic, vocational, ethnic, religious, or racial) to stay together.
  • Students in a vocational track may learn skills such as wood working.

• The paradox of pay

  • Professionals were not paid for their work; instead, professionals received an honorarium, a gratuity from the community intended both to honor and disassociate the vocation from the necessities of the market, to free the vocation for the selfless task of caring for others.
  • " I have only one answer: professions are rightly designated as vocations.

• References

  • Columbus, OH: ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education.

• Training

  • The concept behind training is for the trainee to acquire knowledge, skills, and competencies from the trainer as a result of being taught vocational or practical skills.
  • On-the-job training has a general reputation as being most effective for vocational work.

• Behaviorism: Follett, Munsterberg, and Mayo

  • Industrial psychology, according to Munsterberg, focuses on topics such as hiring workers with personalities and mental abilities best suited to certain types of vocations, as well as on ways to increase motivation, performance, and retention.
  • Munsterberg suggests that psychology could be used in many different industrial applications, including management, vocational decisions, advertising, job performance, and employee motivation.

• Teaching Adult Education

  • However, it is not normally considered to include basic instruction such as literacy, English language skills, or programs such as vocational training or GED preparation.
  • Continuing education can also mean enrollment in non-credit-granting courses, often taken for personal, non-vocational enrichment (although many non-credit courses can also have a vocational function).

• The Working Class

  • Their occupations may require vocational training but generally do not require a college degree, and they likely earn an income above minimum wage but below the national average.